Four more people had been detained on suspicion of kidnapping, cultism, conspiracy, and theft, Commandant David Akinremi revealed in a statement made public on Friday.
All suspects, according to Akinremi, have been transported to the Ogun State Police Headquarters in Eleweran, where they will undergo additional investigation and perhaps face charges.
The two accused were captured on Sunday, November 20, in the Agunboye Ijebu-Igbo neighbourhood of Ogun State. Their names are Busari Aliu and Adetayo Segun.
He asserted that the group's specialty was plundering the Agunboye cemetery for skulls to trade with the other members of the ritual gang.
“On November 4, one Ibu Benjamin of Ayegbami quarters, Agunboye Ijebu-Igbo reported at Amotekun office at Ijebu-Igbo that, on the same date, he discovered that one heavy iron pallet, valued at N350,000 property of his landlady, Mrs Idowu kept within the precincts of a fenced farm and a house yard at Agunboye was stolen by unknown persons,” he said.
“Consequently, operatives of the corps embarked on intelligence activities to get those behind the crime.
“Their efforts paid off on November 20 with the arrest of these two suspects, Busari Aliu and Adetayo Segun, who admitted their involvement and led our operatives to recover the stolen item where it was kept.
“On searching the house and premises where the item was recovered, some pieces of a carbonated human skull were recovered.
“During interrogation, the suspects confessed that they dug into so many graves in Agunboye burial ground and removed several skulls of buried corpses which they sold to some other members of their ritual gang.”